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Title: Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Baker, A. H. (Austin Hart), 1852-
Subjects: Livestock Veterinary medicine
Publisher: Kansas City, Mo. : Intercollegiate Press
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night, while dogs scare and destroy sheep in the daytime as well. Care must, also, be taken to secure them against conta-gious and epidemic diseases. The shepherd must be watchful, vigilantand attentive, summer and winter; it is worth his while to be so, forthere is money in sheep, once in the fleece and once in the carcass. II. The Breeding Age of Sheep. The proper age for sheep to breed is two years. The ewe may beplaced with the buck in the autumn after she is one year old, and there-after she may continue to breed until the age of ten years. But unlessthere is something in a buck or ewe more than ordinarily valuable, it ishardly economy to continue them breeding beyond seven or eight yearsold. From the age of three to eight years the best lambs will be pro-duced. Under exceptional circumstances a strong ram will cover 100ewes if allowed only one service each; but as a rule it is better to keepa ram for each fifty ewes. 1041 1042 CYCLOPEDIA OF LHTB STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOB,
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BBEEDING AND CARE OF SHEEP. 1043 III. Crossing,Unless the breeder be thoroughly informed, and is breeding with aview to the establishment of a new breed, in which distinct characteristicsare to be perpetuated, nothing is gained by crossing two distinct breeds.The breeding of grades is different. If the farmer cannot afford tobreed pure stock, the American Merino may ))e crossed upon any of theordinary fine-wooled sheep of a district. In like manner the Downs willimprove the quality of the mutton and wool ; the Leicester will giveincreased size and early maturity, and length of the wool staple ; so willthe Cotswold, and the latter will certainly get good constitutioned sheep.The breeding of Merinos upon long-wooled sheep should never bethought of. rv. Coupling. In breeding in flock, when more than one ram is kept, select the ewesmost fitted to each ram. At the coupling season, drive a flock to theyard and let the proper ram in to them ; never allow more than one ser-vice, and, as soon

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